Made By Gina's Custom Creations

My Spoonflower

Friday, August 22, 2014

I VERY recently learned how to paper-piece, thanks to a friend of mine in the Tuesday Quilters group that I belong to. I am hooked! I love paper-piecing, and have already started going nuts making blocks I had saved patterns for, in the hopes that someday I'd be able to make them. The end result... a lap quilt I'm calling "Galaxy Explosion" (name for the quilt was suggested by a church friend).

This was such a fun quilt to make! Tedious, but fun. I had a request to make a girly Winnie the Pooh quilt in pinks and purples. I had a really tough time finding girly Pooh fabric...everything in local stores was geared towards babies or boyish colors. So I got some flowery Pooh fabric from a seller on eBay, but the amount was limited, so I picked out the pattern for the quilt AFTER I got the Pooh fabric. I had to pick a pattern that only needed as much Pooh fabric as I was able to get. Once I got the Pooh fabric, I sat and leafed through all my quilt magazines until I came across this pattern. I thought it was perfect...there were flowers in the Pooh fabric, and flower shapes on the quilt! Once the pattern was picked out, I was then able to go shopping for the rest of the coordinating fabrics that I needed, and here's the end result...

Note: The pattern I used for this quilt is actually called "Little Girl's Garden"

and can be found in Fons & Porter's Scrap Quilts, Summer 2012 magazine.

Well, I finally had incentive to finish this quilt, which was on my UFO pile for quite some time. I needed a wedding gift, so I got it done on time to give to the bride and groom.

The quilt is called: Hexagon Garden.
Pattern for this quilt is in the book: More Layer Cake, Jelly Roll & Charm Quilts, pg 82.

I used Moda's Seasonal Little Gatherings: Primitive Gatherings Jelly Roll for this quilt. (Outer borders of black and brown fabrics were just coordinating fabrics from my stash).

Note: This quilt sat folded for awhile on my UFO pile before I finally put the binding on. As you can see, the fold lines/wrinkles don't come out. I've recently found out that fold lines stay in a quilt permanently and that there's a certain way to fold quilts in order to prevent those lines. Here's a quilt folding tutorial I found on another quilter's blog: How to Fold and Store Quilts

This third photo shows an up-close view of the beautiful long-arm quilting.I cut and pieced this quilt, but the long-arm quilting was done byMeandering Mary, New London, WI.